About Locomotive Worm:
Poetry for the esthetics of absurdity, for the sardonic and the ribald, and for love lost. and then lust.
A WORD OF CAUTION:
This book possesses instances of unrestrained sensuality, farcical violence, philosophical misunderstandings, and fairy tales so textured with twisted morality, they breed odd questions, puerile illusions, no easy solutions. This is a catalogue — a poetic sampler. And yet, if the diverging pieces of Locomotive Worm originate from a single source, it stems from the melancholic dissolution of romantic love and the subsequent drive to a perverse vindication. In the real world, we don’t always heal the way we wish, and this book is a reflection on the unexpected flashes of such recuperative incite.
Locomotive Worm offers a different reading experience. First of all, it is prose poetry. But it is also a guidebook on how to approach the collection itself. Certain poems offer directions on how to read them. Events that happen in some pieces show up again in others, from different angles, relinquishing contradictory results. Ultimately, the pages brandish a unique pagination that insinuates multiple reading chronologies. This book is a circuit of stations that fix each piece to the whole network in varied ways, making new connections with each reading.
Beyond these formal permutations, this collection of poetry is a sincere exploration of poetic themes neglected for far too long. Forget about love and beauty! The ludicrous and sardonic can be as compelling, often funnier, and far more exciting. Locomotive Worm demands for the reader to drop the vase of esthetics into the black and white gutter of its text and let the pieces spill out into your opening perception.
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Author Bio:
Rey Armenteros is a Los Angeles-based writer and artist who has had his essays and poetry appear in numerous literary journals and art magazines, including The Nasiona, Lunch Ticket, BlazeVOX, and Still Point Arts Quarterly. Locomotive Worm is his first book of poetry.